Remember the password for the redmine configs.ĥ. Create a new database for your upcoming redmine and create a user for it. You can also use MySQL Workbench or any other way to manage your databases.
go to and download and install PHPMyAdmin. go to and download a version of PHP that you have a working handler module for from the previous step! If the version on the download page is newer than there is a module handler you can find all previous versions of PHP by scrolling down and there is a box labeled "Archive" in the left side where you can find a link to the old versions.Ĥ. If you dont want to use PHP and PHPMyAdmin on your server you can skip steps 3 and 4.ģ. While there are also 64bit binaries now available for Apache from Apachelounge many Apache modules are still available only for 32bit versions so I have not yet found a working set of modules for 64bit Apache. Once downloaded unpack it and check for which versions of PHP 5.4 are included so you know the version to download in the next step! Note 2 ¶ Note 1 ¶įor PHP 5.4 you need to download the handler module for apache 2.4 from the same page (php5apache2_4.) because PHP only provides the handle module up to apache 2.3 at the time of writing this text. This gives some performance increase and stability when using a modern OS like Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. The reason I use the files from this site is that they compile Apache using VC9 instead of VC6 that the official downloads are built with.
I will assume you know how to install MySQL so that you can make local connections to it.Ģ. go to and download the latest version of MySQL. Ruby 1.9.3 RubyInstaller Installing the prequisites: ¶ġ. I will not tell you how to install and configure the required software in detail since they depend entirely on your setup but I will give you tips on how to avoid some problems and caveats I faced. Now I'm not going to write a very detailed tutorial on how to do each bit so you are going to have to adjust these instructions to the official installation instructions. With every new Redmine relase I was getting more and more issues using Mongrel and I finally got Thin working on our server. Since the last instructions on how to get Redmine running on a windows machine are really really old and with the support for Ruby 1.9.3 and all I think its time to write a quick tutorial on how to install Redmine on a Windows machine.